Too small to count? Making Land Use Transformations in Chiquitano communities of San Ignacio de Velasco, East Bolivia, visible

Vega-Leinert, Anne Cristina de la

doi:10.1080/1747423x.2020.1753834

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“…San Ignacio de Velasco is the largest municipality of the province of José Miguel de Velasco, located at the northeast of the department of Santa Cruz (Figure 1). This area was selected to carry out analyses at a more local scale because it has been the municipality most affected by wildfires within the entire study area during the recent period (2010-2019) (Figure 4) [53]. With a surface of about 48,960 km 2 , San Ignacio de Velasco has the highest demographic growth after the city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra.…”

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Spatial Assessment of Wildfires Susceptibility in Santa Cruz (Bolivia) Using Random Forest

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Wildfires are expected to increase in the near future, mainly because of climate changes and land use management. One of the most vulnerable areas in the world is the forest in central-South America, including Bolivia. Despite that this country is highly prone to wildfires, literature is rather limited here. To fill this gap, we implemented a dataset including the burned area that occurred in the department of Santa Cruz in the period of 2010–2019, and the digital spatial data describing the predisposing factors (i.e., topography, land cover, ecoregions). The main goal was to develop a model, based on Random Forest, in which probabilistic outputs allowed to elaborate wildfires susceptibility maps. The overall accuracy was finally estimated by using 5-fold cross-validation. In addition, the last three years of observations acted as the testing dataset, allowing to evaluate the predictive performance of the model. The quantitative assessment of the variables revealed that “flooded savanna” and “shrub or herbaceous cover, flooded, fresh/saline/brakish water” are respectively the ecoregions and land cover classes with the highest probability of predicting wildfires. This study contributes to the development and validation of an innovative mapping tool for fire risk assessment, implementable at a regional scale in different areas of the globe.

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“…A second group of articles reflects on standardized land use conceptualizations and mapping rationales in land use modelling, but also management (Arancibia et al, 2019;de la Vega-Leinert, 2020;Kelly, 2019;Salas Barboza et al, 2019). Important societal dimensions, such as asymmetrical access to land and natural resources, critical socio-environmental externalities, or profound cultural change (e.g., in values, relationship to Nature or local ways of life) that do not necessarily have clearly detectable spatial expressions need to be considered.…”

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Transdisciplinary perspectives on current transformations at extractive and agrarian, frontiers in Latin America

Vega-Leinert¹,

Schönenberg²

2020

Journal of Land Use Science

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Goals and scope of the special issueLand use is at the centre of political and ethical dispute all over the world. How these disputes are conducted depends, to a certain extent, on scientific policy advice. Knowledge related to land rights, food sovereignty, environmental governance, societal and cultural values, and social and human behaviour, among others, represent the frame conditions, well analysed data the content for a qualified debate. Accordingly, cross-fertilization between social and natural sciences and with local stakeholders is critical to produce the knowledge needed to spur transformation (Jahn et al., 2012). In this special issue we aim at:• encouraging transdisciplinary co-production of knowledge on land use in sustainability research • generating original theoretical and methodological insights on the rapid and profound societal and environmental processes currently taking place at Latin American frontiers, and beyond • contributing to an inventive research agenda for transformative research on land use at extractive and agrarian frontiers.Two assumptions guide our reflection:• True transdisciplinarity implies trusting that each source of knowledge involved has a significant role to play in generating the collective insights needed to construct sustainable futures.• We need innovative arenas, where scientific/lay, Western/non-Western, quantitative/qualitative approaches fruitfully interact, to produce hybrid, socially, politically and ecologically conscious research results.With our Special Issue we, therefore, want to foster integrative approaches from a broad spectrum of social science perspectives, ranging from critical geography, agrarian/gender/cultural studies, political sciences, sociology to anthropology and history. We wish to incorporate qualitative, empirical and exploratory methods, which address the societal root causes, processes and implications of land use change. Indeed, they are invaluable in performing actor-, network-, and policy analyses, and providing critical insights into the motivations, perceptions, preferences, and decision-making of societal actors in relation to nature, ecosystem services and land use/land cover (LULC) changes.

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An actor-centered, scalable land system typology for addressing biodiversity loss in the world’s tropical dry woodlands

Pratzer,

Meyfroidt,

Antongiovanni

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Global Environmental Change

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Too small to count? Making Land Use Transformations in Chiquitano communities of San Ignacio de Velasco, East Bolivia, visible

Cited by 4 publications

References 45 publications

Spatial Assessment of Wildfires Susceptibility in Santa Cruz (Bolivia) Using Random Forest

Spatial Assessment of Wildfires Susceptibility in Santa Cruz (Bolivia) Using Random Forest

Transdisciplinary perspectives on current transformations at extractive and agrarian, frontiers in Latin America

An actor-centered, scalable land system typology for addressing biodiversity loss in the world’s tropical dry woodlands

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